LRB Volume 23

Volume 23, 2008

Editorial Board Members: Chris Gallagher, Sandra Gillespie, Atsuko Tsuda

Reviewers: Mark Christianson, Chris Gallagher, Sandra Gillespie, Bill Harshbarger, Owen James, Iain Lambert, Tim Riney, Hiroshi Takahashi, Jim Tollefson, Atsuko Tsuda

Contents

1. Chinese, French, German, Korean, Russian, and Spanish Enrollments (1990 - 2007): Language, Year, Re-enrollments, and Academic Field

Jean-Pierre Bésiat and Timothy J. Riney

2. Designing a Program-Wide Self-Assessment System for Academic Speaking: Preliminary Results and Issues

Mark Christianson and Christopher Hoskins

3. Training Learners to Negotiate for Meaning: An Exploratory Case Study

Akiko Fujii, Motoko Obata, Sayo Takahashi and Sayaka Tanabe

4. The Open Learning Network: A New Teacher-sourced Work Paradigm

Owen James

5. Assessing Oral Communication: Poster Presentations

Iain Lambert

6. Allaying Fear:An essay on the value of not finishing a piece of writing

Miguel Sosa

7. A "Goffmanian" Blending Analysis of the Pronoun We in ESL Classroom Instruction

Hiroshi Takahashi

8. "Talking Race" in University Classes: A Discourse Analytical Approach

James W. Tollefson and Mai Yamagami

9. ドイツ文学のはじまり―聖と俗を超えて

[The Beginning of German Literature: Beyond the Holy and the Worldly]

Naoko Yanai